12th July 2005 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• Airbus to enable in-flight mobile phoning in 2006 Siemens supplying the kit
• Mobile risk to drivers Hands-free kits could increase risk of crashes
• Nokia 'not interested' in buying RIM Devices unattractive - but what about the software?

Comms: Networks

• BT cracks down on 'nuisance' sales calls Now 'eff off and don't bother us again!
• ICANN blog: I don’t like Mondays I’ll tell you why

Comms: VoIP

• Wi-Fi provider pitches Skype users Boingo touts $8-a-month unlimited call plan

Hardware

• AMD alleges Intel compilers create crash code for its chips Fork off
• Microsoft renames Open License Value program Open Value It's simpler

Hardware: Storage

• Hitachi has case of midrange storage madness HP and Sun insist it's a high-end moment

Management: Financial News

• Adobe/Macromedia merger probed Feds want more info
• Alcatel reports higher earnings Wins UK LLU contract
• Chip kit market shrinks Fab market not fab...
• ICANN warns world of domain hijacking Industry told 'sort it'

Management: IT Director

• Abbey business banking falls over (again) Any other business?
• UK faces legal action over e-waste failure EU's green threat

Management: Public Sector

• British government lost 150 PCs this year And the Home Office is worst offender

Music and Media

• 'Sims school' abandons books for laptops The net is all you need
• Dutch file-swapper case collapses Lack of evidence from anti-piracy unit
• Watching us through the Sorting Door Ex-spook and SAP launch RFID research project

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• BBC execs bury snouts in trough Big bonuses anger unions
• Foetus threatened with Asbo Unborn ne'er-do-well off the streets
• How Dell made Los Angeles look like a sucker - in pictures Move over, cows
• News from Dept of Bleedin' Obvious Digital homes cost too much dosh

Odds and Sods: Letters

• 'We are all schadenbloggers, now' Letters In case of terror attack, get typing
• Drugs, phonecams, privacy and GPS tracking Letters It's all go in the post bag

Personal: PCs

• EC officials raid Intel offices Channel partners and PC makers too
• Intel 'ditches' high-end 'Centrino 3' chipset 955XM reportedly axed
• Intel readies mainstream discrete dual-core chipset What, no integrated graphics?

Personal: Peripherals

• Nvidia preps '$450' GeForce 7800 GT Quakecon launch?

Personal: Reviews

• Fuji FinePix F10 Zoom digicam Review Class leader?

Reseller

• Sony1 scores resellers 1,500 signed up

Science

• Comet Tempel-1 covered in cosmic talc Dusty
• Dutch build giant cluster telescope Looking back a long way
• Solar-powered cars to race 2,500 miles From Austin to Calgary

Security

• Industry coalition takes stab at defining spyware Grappling with semantics

Security: Anti-Virus

• Sophos glitch leaves PCs hanging SAV our souls

Software

• Microsoft hears mid-market knocking Needs to tackle IBM, Oracle, LAMP
• OSDL establishes European open source vanguard The power of one